BUSTY AND THE BASS RELEASE DELUXE VERSION OF FOREVER NEVER CARES,
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Today, Busty and the Bass release the Deluxe Version of Forever Never Cares, indulging further into Busty and the Bass' expansive creative journey and genre exploration. With alternate versions, demos, and unreleased tracks, the deluxe album showcases their evolving sound.
“Forever Never Cares was forged in a deep desire to grow as a band and to have our music represent our values and influences on a deeper level than ever before,” says Chris Vincent.
Alistair Blu adds that the Deluxe Version “ touches on all the various musical paths, genres, and styles we were experimenting with during the three years after Eddie. It showcases some of the missing musical pieces that originally inspired the construction of Forever Never Cares. During the pandemic, we opened up many doorways into creative places that we’d never really touched on before as a group. From the epic jazz odyssey (and title track of the deluxe album) “Forever Never Cares”, to the bouncy, club-style joint “Dance Spot (Demo)”, the beautifully messy collection of tracks lets us give a taste of all of the different sounds we were working with at this time.
“We also included a couple demos and original songwriting voice memos to get a sneak peek into the inception of some of these songs. Chris’s original demo for “All The Things I Couldn’t Say To You” and my songwriting sessions for “Smoke and the Pine” lets our fans hear how some of these tracks first began and eventually developed over time.
“The unreleased tracks and excerpts, such as “Money and Me” and “Window Pane”, were songs that we liked collectively but didn’t really know how to fit them on the original album. The Deluxe Version gives space for the larger collection of music that we created as a collective over these past few years and breathes light into some of the farthest avenues of our creative output.”
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MORE ABOUT BUSTY AND THE BASS
For the Canadian-American soul-jazz collective Busty and the Bass, collaboration has always been at the forefront of their music. Formed at McGill University in Montreal over a decade ago, the group is now scattered across four North American cities from coast to coast. Yet, with a collaborative spirit at the heart of their third studio album, Forever Never Cares, the members have never been more connected.
Over the years, the group has collaborated with legendary artists George Clinton, Macy Gray, Earth Wind & Fire, Slum Village, and exciting new voices like Polaris Music Prize winners Cadence Weapon and Pierre Kwenders. Most recently, the group dropped a mini-album with Philadelphia poet and rapper STS. Despite such a strong history of partnerships, Forever Never Cares reshaped the band’s creative formula and redefined how they worked together a decade into their career.
After a founding member and primary songwriter left the band in 2022, the collective used the opportunity to re-approach their creative process for the first time in years. Songs would be brought to the group from individual members or smaller formations of two or three members writing together. Interestingly, more voices involved in the songwriting resulted in the group’s most refined output to date.
Two previous studio albums, Uncommon Good (2017) and Eddie (2020), saw the band experiment with genres effortlessly changing styles song to song, from soul to funk to pop.
Forever Never Cares finds the collective both broadening and distilling their influences into a unified sound that is entirely their own. This is due in large part to founding member Christopher Vincent who engineered and mixed the album. Vincent found a sonic language that would compliment all of the disparate genres being stacked atop one another.
With soul and R&B as the album’s cornerstone, the record is sprinkled with cross-genre explorations. From the indie rock-inflected uptempo singles “All The Things I Couldn’t Say To You” and “Wandering Lies,” to slow-burn ballads like “Give Me A Smile” and “Never Get Enough,” to the celebratory pop-funk of “Starstruck” and “No Angels,” a touch of 70s singer-songwriter on “Smoke and the Pine” and “Holiday Drive,” and the psychedelic jazz explorations of “Far From Here” and “No Self Control” featuring saxophonist Terrace Martin, a frequent collaborator of Kamasi Washington and Robert Glasper.
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TOUR DATES
Nov 19 - Burlington, VT - Foam
Nov 20 - Boston, MA - The Sinclair
Nov 22 - Philadelphia, PA - MilkBoy
Nov 23 - Brooklyn, NY - Elsewhere Hall
Nov 24 - Washington, DC - Pearls
Dec 7 - Quebec City, QC
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FOREVER NEVER CARES DELUXE LP
1. All The Things I Couldn't Say To You
2. Starstruck
3. Never get enough
4. Smoke and the Pine
5. Wandering Lies
6. Holiday Drive
7. Far From Here
8. No Angels
9. Give me a Smile
10. No Self Control
11. All The Things I Couldn't Say To You (Acoustic)
12. Money and Me (Unreleased)
13. Starstruck (The Breakglass Version)
14. Smoke and the Pine (The Breakglass Version)
15. No Self Control (The Breakglass Version)
16. Alan Prater Jam (Demo)
17. Window Pane (Excerpt)
18. All The Things I Couldn't Say To You (Ron’s Demo)
19. Dance Spot (Demo)
20. Smoke and the Pine (Blu’s Songwriting Session)
21. Holiday Drive (Sped Up Tape Version)
22. No Angels (Instrumental)
23. Give Me A Smile (Instrumental)
24. Wandering Lies (A Capella)
25. Forever Never Cares
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